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Petersburg, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Summerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49270. It stands on Miller Drain. The Survey maps it on the Dundee quadrangle. 1,171 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

Petersburg within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Petersburg grew from 1,146 to 1,171 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,146
20201,171+25 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

27 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Petersburg between 2018 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000492 - 2018
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 283 - 2020
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 499 - 2020
24 July 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMMERFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 219 - 2020
6 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMMERFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 147 - 2020
6 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 308 - 2020
18 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000346 - 2019
15 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 227 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Petersburg: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Petersburg Limestone ExposureLimestone, GeneralProspect
R. W. Sidley-Conneaut PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petersburg in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Thunderstorm WindPetersburg$80,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPetersburg$35,000Trees reported down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPetersburg$10,000Several large trees snapped and uprooted. Power lines and poles downed and broken.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPetersburg$3,000The local newspaper reported a 100-year-old decorative maple down in Petersburg.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPetersburg$2,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-A trained spotter reported tree branches 5 inches in diameter down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-A 15 foot diameter tree was toppled on Dixon Road.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-Law enforcement reported wires blown down on Morocco Road.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-Strong thunderstorm winds snapped two to three inch limbs off of several trees.
June 2011HailPetersburg-no account filed
July 2007HailPetersburg-no account filed
April 2006HailPetersburg-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-no account filed
June 2006HailPetersburg-no account filed
May 2004HailPetersburg-no account filed
July 1999HailPetersburg-no account filed
May 1998HailPetersburg-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindPetersburg-no account filed
July 1996HailPetersburg-no account filed
April 1996HailPetersburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Petersburg Junction1.3 miles16
Diann4.6 miles16
Dundee4.9 miles16
Rea5.1 miles16
Lulu5.7 miles18
Ida7.5 miles18
Saint Anthony7.7 miles16
Ida Center8.0 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on PetersburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3308106The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 634708. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.